2.1 strengthen the competent services
of the Council of Europe in order to enable them to provide technical
assistance and advice to Ukraine and those member States exercising
their universal jurisdiction to investigate and document gross human
rights violations, including those amounting to war crimes, crimes
against humanity and possible genocide, on the scale required;
2.2 invite the expert bodies of the Council of Europe, notably
the Consultative Council of European Judges and the Consultative
Council of European Prosecutors, the European Commission for the Efficiency
of Justice and the European Commission for Democracy through Law
(Venice Commission), and other monitoring and standard-setting mechanisms
of the Council of Europe concerned, to produce expert recommendations
and guidelines relating to these issues within the ambit of their
competence;
2.3 encourage all member States to participate in setting
up an ad hoc international criminal tribunal to prosecute the crime
of aggression allegedly committed by the political leaders and military commanders
of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, by way of a multilateral
treaty between like-minded States;
2.4 examine ways and means for the Council of Europe as a
whole to play an active role in setting up and operating such a
tribunal, including by providing logistical or other technical assistance.
